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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Arun website
18,581 approved · 2,775 refused · 1,066 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
23 Alexander Close Aldwick PO21 4PL
Received 6 Feb 20184 Harebell Close Littlehampton BN17 6WE
Received 21 Jul 2017Forge House Nyton Road Westergate PO20 3UP
Received 12 May 202174 Langbury Lane Ferring BN12 6QA
Received 20 Jul 202621 Hewarts Lane Aldwick PO21 3DR
Received 5 Feb 201316 Meadway Rustington BN16 2DD
Received 21 Dec 2018Springfield Nursery Barnham Road Barnham
Received 4 Sept 20091 Thames Close Littlehampton BN17 6PZ
Received 21 Dec 202129 Downview Avenue Ferring BN12 6QW
Received 27 Jun 2014Summerfield Lake Lane Barnham PO22 0AE
Received 16 Dec 2019Butterlees Barn Pagham Road Lagness Pagham PO20 1LL
Received 9 Nov 2011White Croft & Blue Haze Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NJ
Received 9 Dec 2009Dower Cottage Church Lane Walberton BN18 0UD
Received 10 Mar 2020Smugglers 4 Botany Close Rustington BN16 2BH
Received 1 Dec 2014St Philip Howard Catholic High School Elm Grove South Barnham PO22 0EN
Received 4 Mar 20107 Sea Close Elmer Middleton-On-Sea PO22 7RU
Received 20 Feb 202038 Davenport Road Bognor Regis PO22 7JS
Received 26 Apr 201018 The Poplars Ferring BN12 5QL
Received 29 Jan 2010North Bersted Post Office 295 Chichester Road BOGNOR REGIS PO21 5AL
Received 15 Dec 2008Land at Sheepwash Farm Church Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TT
Received 19 May 201159 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BQ
Received 7 Jun 20172 Larchfield Close Aldwick PO21 4RB
Received 26 Jan 2020Flat 1 and Flat 6 The Ramblers South Strand East Preston BN16 1NY
Received 30 Jan 201339 Craigweil Lane Aldwick PO21 4AN
Received 18 Aug 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Arun District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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